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TIL Sean Connery used to polish coffins for a living

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rRM7w TIL that the phrase “May you live in interesting times” is not a Chinese saying and that there are no Chinese sources credited with ever having used the phrase.
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d8Vj9 TIL of McArthur Wheeler who, in 1995, robbed two Pittsburgh banks with his face covered with nothing but lemon juice, which he believed would make it invisible to the surveillance cameras on the principle of invisible ink
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